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WILKESBORO -- Bristol Compressors, a Virginia company that got millions of dollars in incentives in 1995 to locate an air-conditioning compressor plant in Sparta (Cover story, February 2002) won't have to repay the money, despite closing the plant in 2002. A jury ruled Bristol created some jobs and did not breach a contract that awarded it $15.5 million in land...